![]() One of the major physical rationales for the acceptance of this temperature record was given by Lamb (1958), who suggested that an exceptional föhn wind resulting from a severe thunderstorm far to the south could have created such a remarkable temperature. ![]() 6) state, “A temperature of 136☏ observed at Azizia, Tripolitania, in northern Africa on 13 September 1922 is generally accepted as the world's highest temperature recorded under standard conditions.” Many other reputable sources have also cited the Azizia record as the world's most extreme temperature ( Anonymous 1924 Bonacina 1924 Anonymous 1930 Talman 1931 Brooks 1935 Seamon and Bartlett 1956 Riordan 1970 U.S. Many-perhaps most-past historical meteorological extremes compilations have accepted the temperature extreme at El Aziza. The WMO assessment is that the highest recorded surface temperature of 56.7☌ (134☏) was measured on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch (Death Valley), California. Based on these concerns, the WMO World Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes rejected this temperature extreme of 58☌ as the highest temperature officially recorded on the planet. This committee identified five major concerns with the 1922 El Azizia temperature extreme record, specifically 1) potentially problematical instrumentation, 2) a probable new and inexperienced observer at the time of observation, 3) unrepresentative microclimate of the observation site, 4) poor correspondence of the extreme to other locations, and 5) poor comparison to subsequent temperature values recorded at the site. During 2010–11, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission of Climatology (CCl) special international panel of meteorological experts conducted an in-depth investigation of this record temperature for the WMO World Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes ( ). That temperature record of 58☌ has been cited by numerous world-record sources as the highest recorded temperature for the planet. On 13 September 1922, a temperature of 58☌ (136.4☏) was purportedly recorded at El Azizia (approximately 40 km south-southwest of Tripoli) in what is now modern-day Libya.
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